by Kate Monypenny y Leonee Ariel Derr | Jul 21, 2019 | Interviews
There is a clear intersection and cross over in the work of cultural institutions like galleries, libraries, archives, museums and even recordkeeping institutions. Over the last decade in Australia, an acronym has made its way into the sectors’ vernacular to refer to...
by Hannah Nagle | Jun 26, 2019 | Articles
During the Long Depression of the 1870s, a man named Edward Owens took up piracy in Chesapeake Bay. He had run out of money, his work as an oyster fisherman no longer able to support him. Born in Virginia in 1853, he chose Watt’s Island as the location for his new...
by Alex Green | Jun 17, 2019 | Archive, Articles, Featured, News of interest, Projects, Technology
At a time when the fragility and vulnerability of digital records are increasingly evident, maintaining the trustworthiness of public archives is more important than ever. Video and sound recordings can be manipulated to put words into mouths of people who never said...
by Özge Calafato | Jun 12, 2019 | Archive, Articles, Projects
Akkasah (an old word for camera in the Khaliji dialect), the Center for Photography at New York University Abu Dhabi, is home to an archive of the photographic heritage of the Middle East and North Africa. Founded in 2014 by New York University Abu Dhabi...
by Jarrod Harvey | May 22, 2019 | Articles, Technology
“People have had a lot of trouble getting stuff out of RecordPoint.” This sentence was a little worrying to hear. It was 2015, and our archive was contemplating digital preservation for the first time. We didn’t really know what it was, or how it worked. Neither did...
by Charlotte Berry | May 15, 2019 | Archive, Articles
The author of this article co-planned and participated in a panel presentation and debate on this topic in August 2017, and now in spring 2019, it seems an excellent opportunity to look back at the professional climate as it was 18 months ago and how professional...
by Víctor Villapalos | May 14, 2019 | Editorial
After nearly two years of operation, Archivoz continues to grow as an informative international project providing a platform for professionals from archives and information industries all around the world. It showcases their concerns and experiences as well as the...
by Evanthia Samaras | May 13, 2019 | Archive, Articles, Projects
Introduction: From film to archives, and back to film From a young age, I’ve been enamoured with films and the magic of bringing moving images to the screen. In my 20s I pursued undergraduate studies in media production and dabbled in many areas of film production,...
by Julia Ihnatowicz | Apr 17, 2019 | Archive, Articles, Projects, Technology
The Qatar Digital Library Since 2012, the British Library has been working with the Qatar Foundation and Qatar National Library to create and maintain the Qatar Digital Library. Launched in 2014, this free, bilingual portal hosts a growing archive of previously...
by Tuija Ainonen | Apr 8, 2019 | Articles, Projects
In November 2018, the British Library and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France launched two new websites that offer access to digitised copies of medieval manuscripts. The two libraries worked together to digitise 800 illuminated manuscripts from the period 700–1200,...
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by Laura Gallon | Mar 6, 2019 | Articles, Technology
In today’s digital age, verse has gone viral. Since 2013, young poets have turned to photo-sharing platforms like Instagram to self-publish their texts and gain a wide readership. Fitting their words into the square Instagram picture frames, paying attention to font...
by Mike Jones | Feb 27, 2019 | Articles
For hundreds of years scholars and humanists have understood the importance of connected collections. Yet much of our documentation for archives and museums has become disconnected, this separation exacerbated by different technologies and distinct professional...
by Jessica Holland | Feb 13, 2019 | Archive, Articles, Projects
The American Center of Oriental Research (ACOR) Photo Archive has recently digitized and made available six collections of photographs spanning diverse subjects in archaeology, social history, anthropology, art and architectural history from 1944 to 2008 from across...
by Melanie Taylor | Dec 12, 2018 | Archive, Articles
Part one: Archive in Practice One dimension of photography is that it is concerned with the staging of a struggle against the loss of memory – an attempt to archive and preserve what is about to disappear for good.[1] Gerhard Richter These reflections by artist...
by Noemi Ortega Raventós | Nov 21, 2018 | Archive, Articles, Editorial, Projects
In October 2014, the British Library Qatar Foundation Partnership launched the Qatar Digital Library (QDL), an online bilingual portal that provides free access to material from the British Library’s collections. The portal displays content related to the history and...
by Riley Linebaugh | Oct 31, 2018 | Archive, Articles, Projects
At the end of May 2018, a team assembled in Kampala, Uganda’s capital, in order to appraise, organize, and catalogue the High Court of Uganda’s archive. Over a period of three months, the team of 15+ archivists, academics, and High Court staff members catalogued what...
by Amanda House | Aug 29, 2018 | Articles
In July 2017 Unlocking Our Sound Heritage (UOSH), a major Heritage Lottery funded five year partnership led by the British Library was launched. The project, which forms part of the British Library’s Save Our Sounds programme, aims to preserve and provide access to as...
